Functional a posteriori error estimates for problems with nonlinear boundary conditions

Journal of Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-81

  Repin, S ^a   Valdman, J ^b  

^a STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Friction type conditions; Functional a posteriori error estimates; Problems with nonlinear boundary conditions; Variational inequalities

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SOLUTIONS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

(PL) PROPERTIES; A POSTERIORI; A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATES; APPROXIMATION ERRORS; CONVEX FUNCTIONALS; EXACT SOLUTIONS; HIGH QUALITY (HQ); NONLINEAR BOUNDARY CONDITIONS (NBC); NUMERICAL TESTING; SHARP BOUNDS; UPPER BOUNDS; VARIATIONAL APPROACH (IGC: E6); VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 45349097971     PISSN: 15702820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JNUM.2008.003     Document Type: Article

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